United Kingdom’s wartime scientific establishment

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The United Kingdom’s wartime scientific establishment was the network of government laboratories, academic institutions, and industrial research groups that coordinated and advanced British science and technology for military purposes during the Second World War.

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instanceOf scientific organization network
wartime research establishment
collaboratedWith Canadian wartime scientific establishment
United States scientific establishment
coordinatedBy Admiralty
Advisory Council for Scientific Research and Technical Development
Ministry of Aircraft Production
Ministry of Supply
Office of the Lord President of the Council
War Office
country United Kingdom
endTime 1945
fieldOfWork aeronautical engineering
applied physics
chemical warfare defence
cryptanalysis
electronics
military science
nuclear physics
operational research
radar technology
weapons development
hasPart British academic institutions
British government research laboratories
British industrial research groups
includes Admiralty Research Laboratory
Admiralty Signal Establishment
Armament Research Department
Bawdsey Research Station
Bletchley Park
Cavendish Laboratory
Chemical Defence Experimental Station Porton Down
Clarendon Laboratory
Operational Research Sections of the armed services
Royal Aircraft Establishment
Royal Society scientific committees
Telecommunications Research Establishment
influenced development of Big Science in the United Kingdom
postwar British defence research structure
notableProject Chain Home radar system
Tube Alloys nuclear weapons research programme
airborne interception radar
anti-submarine warfare technologies
bombsight and bombing accuracy improvements
cavity magnetron development
codebreaking of Enigma traffic
early electronic computing for cryptanalysis
proximity fuze research
operatedDuring Second World War
linked to: World War II
startTime 1939

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Wallace Akers partOf United Kingdom’s wartime scientific establishment